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Mo·hawk 1

 (mō′hôk′)
n. pl. Mohawk or Mo·hawks
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast New York along the Mohawk and upper Hudson Valleys north to the St. Lawrence River, with present-day populations chiefly in southern Ontario and extreme northern New York. The Mohawk were the easternmost member of the Iroquois confederacy.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Mohawk.

[Narragansett Mohowaúg.]

Mo·hawk 2

 (mō′hôk′)
n. pl. Mo·hawks
A hairstyle in which the scalp is shaved except for an upright strip of hair that runs across the crown of the head from the forehead to the nape of the neck.

[After Mohawk.]
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Mohawks

A native North American people, a tribe of the Iroquois, originally living along the Mohawk River.
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But it opened with a ceremonial call to order by Chief Howard Thompson of the United States' Mohawk Nation.
It became quickly apparent and was later confirmed by a Mohawk informant that the Band Council, the Mohawk Nation Council, and the Warrior Society co-operated and coordinated fully with one another.
The story of the Haudenosaunee, and the Mohawk Nation within that ancient confederacy, includes a distinct Loyalist heritage.
The Mohawk Watershed, originally the homeland for the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee, was settled by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries and became home to numerous small villages, populated by European immigrant groups--the Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, Irish, and Germans--who came to work in the region's textile and leather industries.
Under the Act people are issued a card and assigned an Indian band, a number and so on--no reference to the Mohawk Nation or the Cree people or the thousands of years they had existed in the territory.
Critique: Author Rick Monture is a member of the Mohawk nation, Turtle clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River Terrory and Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada).
Her uncle and aunts were against her interest in Christianity and the Western religion, desiring her to grow, learn skills, and marry within the clan circles of the Mohawk Nation. However, Tekakwitha later met Father de Lamberville, studied Christianity covertly with him and was baptized on Easter, 1676, when she was 20 years old.
The Saint Regis Mohawk Nation shares approximately twenty miles of land with the Canadian border, while the Tohono O'odham Nation shares approximately seventy-five miles with the Mexican border.
The Akwesasne Mohawk Nation is a community with multiple toxicant exposures [PCBs, p,p'-DDE, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), lead] and PCB exposures that are substantially greater than those in the U.S.
Later, Dyster seemed to compare himself to Niagara Falls pioneer John Stedman, telling sympathetic media outlets he'd been "ambushed" by Kane, who is a member of the Mohawk Nation and lives on the Seneca Cattaraugus reservation.
(6) Brought together for the purposes of peace and mutual protection, the Confederacy encompasses six Indigenous nationsi the original five nations comprising Kanien:keha'ka (The Mohawk Nation), Oneniote'a:ka (The Oneida Nation), Ononta'keha:ka (The Onondaga Nation), Kaion'keha:ka (The Cayuga Nation), Shotinontowane'a:ka (The Seneca Nation), as well as the final nation to join the fold in 1722, Tehatiskaroiros (The Tuscarora Nation).
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